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From the Ethics of the Fathers: "He [Rabbi Tarfon] used to say, it is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but you are not exempt from undertaking it."

Friday, September 4, 2015

Is it a coincidence that the U.S. and Germany decided to pull their Patriots from Turkey after signing the Iran nuclear deal?

U.S. Patriot missiles in Gaziantep, Turkey

In early 2013, NATO supposedly came to its ally's help: As Turkey was
under threat from Syrian missiles -- potentially with
biological/chemical warheads -- the alliance would build a mini
anti-missile defense architecture on Turkish soil. Six U.S.-made Patriot
missile batteries would be deployed in three Turkish cities and protect
a vast area where about 3.5 million Turks lived.

The Patriot batteries that would protect Turkey from Syrian missiles
belonged to the United States, Germany and the Netherlands. In early
2015, the Dutch mission ended and was replaced by Spanish Patriots.
Recently, the German government said that it would withdraw its Patriot
batteries and 250 troops at the beginning of 2016. Almost
simultaneously, the U.S. government informed Turkey that its Patriot
mission, expiring in October, would not be renewed. Washington cited "critical modernization upgrades" for the withdrawal.

Iran views defensive NATO assets in Turkey as a threat to its offensive missile capabilities.

Since the air defense system was stationed on Turkish soil, it
unnerved Iran more than it did Syria. There is a story behind this.
First, Patriot missiles cannot protect large swaths of land, but only
designated friendly sites or installations in their vicinity. That the
six batteries would protect Turkey's entire south and 3.5 million people
living there was a tall tale. They would instead protect a U.S.-owned,
NATO-assigned radar deployed earlier in Kurecik, a Turkish town; and they would protect it not from Syrian missiles with chemical warheads, but from Iranian ballistic missiles.

Kurecik seemed to matter a lot to Iran. In November 2011, Iran threatened
that it would target NATO's missile defense shield in Turkey, "and then
hit the next targets" (read Israel), if it were threatened. Shortly
before the arrival of Patriots in Turkey, Iran's army chief of staff warned NATO that stationing Patriot anti-missile batteries in Turkey was "setting the stage for world war."

What was stationed in Kurecik was an early-warning missile detection
and tracking radar system. Its mission is to provide U.S. naval assets
in the Mediterranean with early warning and tracking information in case
of an Iranian missile launch that might target an ally or a friendly
country, including Israel. So, a six-battery Patriot shield to protect
the NATO radar in Kurecik against possible Iranian aggression was
necessary. And that explains why the Iranians went mad about Kurecik and
openly threatened to hit it.

NATO and Turkish officials have always denied any link between the
Patriot missiles and the NATO radar in Turkey. They have often pointed
out that the Patriot batteries were stationed in the provinces of Adana,
Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, while Kurecik was in nearby Malatya
province. But the Patriot is a road-mobile system: It can be dismantled
easily and re-deployed in another area in a matter of hours (the road
distance between Kurecik and Kahramanmaras is a mere 200 kilometers, or
124 miles).

Clearly, Iran did not go mad and threaten to hit all NATO
installations in Turkey because it wanted 3.5 million Turkish citizens
to die from the chemical warhead of a Syrian missile. It went mad and
threatened because it viewed the defensive NATO assets in Turkey as a
threat to its offensive missile capabilities, which the Patriots could
potentially neutralize.

Is it a coincidence that the U.S. and Germany decided to pull their Patriots from Turkey after signing the Iran nuclear deal?

Why, otherwise, would a country feel "threatened" and threaten others
with starting a "world war" just because a bunch of defensive systems
are deployed in a neighboring country? Iran did so because it views the
NATO radar in Turkey as an asset that could counter any missile attack
on Israel; and the Patriots as hostile elements because they would
protect that radar. In a way, Iran's reaction to the NATO assets in
Turkey revealed its intentions to attack.

It could be a total coincidence that the U.S. and Germany (most
likely to be followed by Spain) have decided to pull their Patriot
batteries and troops from Turkey shortly after agreeing to a nuclear
deal with Iran. But if it is a coincidence, it is a very suspicious one.
In theory, the Patriot systems were deployed in Turkey in order to
protect the NATO ally from missile threats from Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad's regime. Right? Right.

Assad's regime is still alive in Damascus and it has the same missile
arsenal it had in 2013. Moreover, Turkey's cold war with Assad's Syria
is worse than it was in 2013, with Ankara systematically supporting
every opposition group and openly declaring that it is pushing for
Assad's downfall. Why were Assad's missiles a threat to Turkey two and a
half years ago, but are not today?

The Patriot missiles are leaving Turkey. They no longer will "protect Turkish soil."

Apparently, NATO allies believe, although the idea defies logic, that
the nuclear deal with Iran will discourage the mullahs in Tehran from
attacking Israel.

It looks as if the NATO heavyweights' decision is more a gesture to Iran than to Turkey.

Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based columnist for the Turkish daily Hürriyet and a fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Today
Europe has suicidally imported more than 50 million Muslims -- just as
Obama wants us to do here. With America failing to provide international
leadership, Europe has simply collapsed and surrendered -- hoping the
crocodile will eat it last.

It
was V.I. Lenin who sneered that the last capitalist would sell
communists the rope to hang him with. That's what happened in the Soviet
Empire, which ran Eastern Europe for half a century. But even in the
1930s most European nations were ready to surrender preemptively to the
Nazi war machine.

Today
Europe has suicidally imported more than 50 million Muslims -- just as
Obama wants us to do here. With America failing to provide international
leadership, Europe has simply collapsed and surrendered -- hoping the
crocodile will eat it last.

Remember how well that worked the last few times?

Since
1945 Europe has been unwilling to defend itself, relying on the
US-Anglosphere alliance to pull its chestnuts out of the fire. In the
case of Islam, Europe is pre-emptively bowing to the Muslim onslaught.
While ordinary people no longer believe pro-immigration propaganda, the
ruling class knows it can ignore the people. People with common sense
are powerless.

This week a Hungarian Nobelist in Literature, Imre Kertész, himself a WW2 concentration camp survivor, published a book called The Last Escape.

In it he writes

“Muslims are flooding, occupying, ... destroying Europe
(with its) suicidal liberalism and the stupid democracy.… It always
ends the same way: civilization reaches a certain stage of maturation
... where it is in a seemingly incomprehensible worship of (its) own
enemy.”

Today's
Munich 2.0 deal, courtesy of Obama, is happily endorsed by Vladimir
Putin, who will do anything to bring down the United States; plus the
Chinese, who routinely preach aggression against us. As a consequence,
Japan is rapidly rearming. Its newest helicopter carrier is called the Kaga,
after its Imperial Navy namesake that helped to attack Pearl Harbor in
1946. The name "Kaga" is no accident. Symbolism counts in Japan, which
has never even managed to apologize to its WW2 victims. A big helicopter
carrier can readily convert to a cruise missile platform.

It's
a good bet that Japan is working with South Korea and Taiwan on nuclear
weapons and ballistic missiles. All of our former allies are arming up,
because nobody can trust us under Obama.

Like Munich 1.0 in 1938, Munich 2.0 could open the gates of hell.

Obama
ran as a self-proclaimed peacemaker, but he has destabilized the Middle
East, Europe and Asia. Quite an achievement for a peacemaker.

Among the biggest profiteers from Munich 2.0 are Germany, France, Britain and the EU.

Israel is now the first target for the mullahs' genocidal hunger, just as Czechoslovakia was for Hitler.

Every
European nation has World War 2.0 burned into its living memory. They
know exactly what they are doing. Unlike many Americans, Europe isn't
just deluded and dumbed-down, but completely cynical and corrupt.
Europe's political class is deliberately choosing evil, and it
understands that perfectly well.

Obama
is disgraceful, but then he has always rooted for the enemy in the
Jihad War, as we now know. (See Admiral James Lyons' public statement here, and more than 200 retired US flag officers here).

As
Imre Kertész wrote, Europe isn't just corrupt, it is suicidal, which
makes it even harder to understand. Israel is armed to the teeth and
determined to defend itself, with nuclear weapons if necessary. But
Europe is just as much in the range of Iran's city-busting missiles and
bombs -- all in the hands of a primitive theocracy with its head stuck
in the desert sands of the 7th century. When it comes to ICBMs,
Washington and New York City are just as vulnerable as any city in the
Middle East, along with Moscow and Beijing. Once the missiles are up,
who cares where they come down? Ballistic missiles only have to escape
earth gravity; from there it's all downhill. If you can launch a
satellite and control re-entry, the world is at your mercy.

If
there is any shred of rationality left in Tehran and Qom, the mullahs
will attack the weaker nations first. Europe is a big, fat target,
because it doesn't have the will to defend itself. You can stockpile all
the weapons in the world, but if you are psychologically weak you have
already disarmed yourself. The 9/11 hijackers killed United and American
Airlines personnel with razor-sharp utility knives. All it took was
enough fanaticism and indoctrination to make mass murder-martyrdom seem
sweet.

In
World War 2 France had the Maginot Line and a sizeable army, but the
country simply collapsed for lack of morale. For Jihad killers, Europe's
surrender is all but a done deal.

The
big payoffs for Munich 2.0 are coming out. The Russians are selling the
mullahs one hundred long-range refueling tankers, with China in line to
sell them a hundred jet bombers for long-distance power projection. The
Iranians have been importing long-range missile technology from North
Korea, with Chinese backing. Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been
spotted at nuclear tests in the north. And Obama wants to give them 150
billion dollars to beef up their aggression.

"Iran's
nuclear program depends mainly upon German products and services. For
example, the thousands of centrifuges used to enrich the uranium are
controlled by Siemens "Simatic WinCC Step7" software.[7][8] ... more
than 12,000 firms have trade representatives in Iran. Many well-known
German companies are involved in major Iranian infrastructure
projects... In 2005, Germany had the largest share of Iran's export
market with $5.67 billion (14.4%)."

Those dollar figures are bound to go up when the mullahs get their 150 billion dollar payoff for Obama's surrender.

Since
everything old is new again, we should remember two words: Munich and
Vichy. Today, Europe is repeating the Munich surrender to international
thuggery. Tomorrow it may turn into the Nazi puppet state of Vichy.

James LewisSource: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/europe_sells_the_hangmans_rope__again.html Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.

It “will enable Iran to increase support for terrorist and insurgent
proxies, aggravate sectarian conflict and trigger both nuclear and
conventional proliferation cascades.” But who cares? Kardashians!

“Nuclear deal will make war with Iran more likely, former top military officials say in report,” by Kellan Howell, The Washington Times, September 2, 2015 (thanks to Banafsheh):

A group of former top military officials and intelligence
analysts released a new report Wednesday concluding that the nuclear
deal with Iran will threaten American interests and increase the
probability of military conflict in the Middle East.
In its report, the Iran Strategy Council wrote that the nuclear deal,
called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), “will enable
Iran to increase support for terrorist and insurgent proxies, aggravate
sectarian conflict and trigger both nuclear and conventional
proliferation cascades.”
Additionally, the deal will “provide the expansionist regime in
Tehran with access to resources, technology and international arms
markets required to bolster offensive military capabilities in the vital
Persian Gulf region, acquire long-range ballistic missiles and develop
other major weapons systems,” the council wrote.
In its report, the council argued that the deal is not an alternative
to war with Iran, as many of its supports have claimed, but would
actually make war more likely.
“Contrary to the false choice between support for the JCPOA and
military confrontation, the agreement increases both the probability and
danger of hostilities with Iran,” the report noted. “Given the
deleterious strategic consequences to the United States, implementation
of the JCPOA will demand increased political and military engagement in
the Middle East that carries significantly greater risks and costs
relative to current planning assumptions.”
The Iran Strategy Council was commissioned by the Jewish Institute of
National Security to educate Americans on the consequences of the Iran
nuclear deal.
Members of the council include retired Gen. James Conway, former
Commandant of the Marine Corps; retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Wald,
former Deputy Commander of the United States European Command; retired
Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, former Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces in
Europe/Africa; and retired Vice Adm. John Bird, former Commander of the
U.S. Seventh Fleet….

The West's ideological delusions are now too dangerous to ignore.

We have arrived at the point where the consequences of the West’s
intellectual disarmament at the hands of political correctness begins to
have disastrous consequences in the lives of hundreds of millions of
people.
Speaking last month at the memorial service for the five US marines
massacred at a recruiting office in Chattanooga, Tennessee, US Defense
Secretary Ashton Carter said, “The meaning of their killing is yet
unclear, and what combination of disturbed mind, violent extremism, and
hateful ideology was at work, we don’t know.”
US Vice President Joe Biden claimed, the “perverse ideologues...may be
able to inspire a single lone wolf, but they can never, never threaten
who we are.”
Both men were wrong, and dangerously so.
The meaning of the killings was no mystery.
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot his victims down in cold blood because
he was a jihadist. He wrote of his devotion to the Islamic war for
global domination on his blog. He downloaded messages from Anwar Awlaki,
the American al-Qaida commander killed in a drone attack in Yemen in
2011.
Awlaki’s most prolific follower to date was US Army Major Nidal Malik
Hassan who massacred 13 soldiers and wounded 32 in his November 2009
assault at Ft. Hood, Texas. Yet, just as the Obama administration denies
to this day that Hassan operated out of devotion to the cause of
Islamic global supremacy through genocidal war, so Carter pretended away
Abdulazeez’s obvious motive. And Biden stood before those whose lives
were shattered by jihad last month and told them that jihad was not a
threat to their way of life.
Ideas are the most powerful human force. And the idea of jihad that the
Obama administration will not discuss is perhaps the most powerful idea
in the world’s marketplace of ideas today.
The notion of jihad is fairly simple. It asserts that Islam is the only
true religion. All other faiths are wrong and evil. It is the destiny
of the one true faith to reign supreme. The duty of all Muslims is to
facilitate Islam’s global rise and dominion.
How this duty is borne varies. Some take up arms.
Some engage in indoctrination. Some engage in subversion. And some
cheer from the sidelines, providing a fan base to encourage those more
directly engaged. What is most important is the shared idea, the creed
of jihad.
The jihadist creed is a creed of war. Consequently, its adherents cannot live peacefully with non-jihadists.
By definition, those who subscribe to a jihadist world view constitute a threat to those who do not share their belief system.
Rather than contend with the idea of jihad, the West, led by the US,
insists on limiting its focus to the outward manifestations of jihadist
beliefs.
Physical bases of jihadists in places like Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and
Yemen are targeted to kill specific people – like Awlaki. But the ideas
that inspire them to action are ignored or dismissed as irrelevant and
interchangeable with other ideologies, like Zionism and fiscal
conservatism.
Unlike the Americans, the jihadists understand the power of their idea.
And they invest hundreds of millions of dollars to propagate it. MEMRI
recently reported that Islamic State (IS) runs at least three production
companies. They disseminate professional- quality videos daily. The
videographers, composers and singers who produce these films are IS
members, no different from its beheaders, sex traders and chemical
weapons purveyors.
Like IS’s battle successes and its sex slave industry, these videos
have already had a profound impact on the shape of the Islamic world and
the threat jihadist Islam constitutes for its opponents worldwide.
From Nigeria to Egypt to the Palestinian Authority to Pakistan, in
Europe, the US and South America, jihadist armies and individual Muslims
are embracing the idea of the caliphate – the ultimate aim of jihad –
and pledging or weighing the option of pledging loyalty to IS and its
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
As a result, the never reasonable notion that you can limit war against
jihad to the physical bases of IS and other terrorist groups while
ignoring the idea that motivates their actions has become downright
deadly.
Consider Egypt. As Yoni Ben-Menachem reported last month for the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, on August 20, Baghdadi officially
asked the Muslim Brotherhood to join IS and pledge loyalty to his
caliphate. His request was completely reasonable.
Both IS and the Brotherhood share the same ideology, including the goal
of Islamic domination through the renewed caliphate. Like the
Brotherhood, Boko Haram in Nigeria, Ansar el-Makdis in the Sinai and
other jihadist groups in Asia and Africa have already accepted
Baghdadi’s invitation, pledged allegiance to the caliphate and changed
their names to incorporate into the Islamic State.
Ben-Menachem noted that in January 2015, Muslim Brotherhood leader
Youssef Qaradawi said that Baghdadi is a member of the Brotherhood.
Organizational cooperation, including military cooperation between IS
and the Brotherhood, which is the largest organization in Egypt has
grown steadily over the past two years since then defense minister Abdel
Fattah Sisi overthrew the Brotherhood regime in July 2013.
IS’s goal is apparently to convince the young Brotherhood members to
join forces. If the bid is successful, Egypt will become a tinderbox
whose destructive force will be cataclysmic.
Then there is nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Last week the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the
Stimson Center published a joint report warning that given Pakistan’s
rate of nuclear activity, within five to 10 years Pakistan may have the
third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, behind only the US and
Russia. According to the report, Pakistan is producing nuclear bombs
four times faster than India.
The epicenter of Pakistan’s nuclear work is its Baluchistan province.
IS’s popularity is high and growing in the area, as it is throughout
much of Pakistan.
Indian intelligence reports claim that Pakistan’s security forces are
making the same cynical use of IS that they have made of al-Qaida and
the Taliban.
ISI, Pakistan’s spy service, facilitates the operations of these groups
in order to coerce the US to provide Pakistan with more aid, which it
is expected to use to contain the threat it has itself cultivated.
This game has been going on for decades. But there is no reason to
assume that as IS gains power and adherents, the same Pakistani security
forces that believe they can control IS will not end up joining it. And
as a consequence, the danger that bombs they now build will fall under
Baghdadi’s control is real and growing.
Last week the Pentagon’s Inspector General announced it is
investigating reports that the Obama administration has required US
intelligence agencies to minimize their reporting on the threat IS
poses. Intelligence officers have allegedly been ordered to exaggerate
the success of the US’s anemic campaign against its bases in Iraq and
Syria while understating the threat IS constitutes.
Over the past year, jihadists published the home addresses of American
soldiers and officers. On numerous occasions, what an FBI alert referred
to as “Middle Eastern men” accosted the wives of US soldiers who served
in Iraq and Afghanistan outside of their homes.
Speaking to concerned soldiers last week, Carter again pretended away
the problem. While insisting that protecting soldiers is “job one for
all of us,” Carter insisted that the threat was limited to “a few
troubled losers who are on the Internet too much.”
Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop warned in June that IS may
already have sufficient nuclear material to produce a dirty bomb. As we
have seen with IS’s wide-scale use of chemical weapons in Iraq, we must
assume that its fighters will use all weapons at their disposal.
Had the West – led by the US – been willing to abandon the intellectual
straitjacket of political correctness with which it has willingly
shackled itself, IS may very well have been a marginal movement able to
attract no more than “a few troubled losers who are on the Internet too
much.”
Biden’s pledge that while “perverse ideologues...may be able to inspire
a single lone wolf they can never, never threaten who we are” might
have been credible.
But because of our voluntary intellectual enslavement, we now face a
real danger that IS and its demonic notions will take over Egypt.
Because we seek to ignore the creed of jihad, Pakistan’s fast growing
nuclear arsenal could very well become the property of the caliphate.
Ideas are the force that drives history. If we aren’t willing to fight
for what we believe, then we will lose to those who are. And make no
mistake, we are not winning this war.Caroline Glick is the Director of the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Israel Security
Project and the Senior Contributing Editor of The Jerusalem Post. For
more information on Ms. Glick's work, visit carolineglick.com. Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260002/losing-war-ideas-caroline-glick Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.

Nuclear nightmare on the horizon.

Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland has pushed
President Obama's nuclear appeasement deal with Iran over the top. With
her decision to vote in favor of the deal, Obama now has the support
of the 34 senators he needs to uphold his expected veto of a
congressional resolution of disapproval. If enough craven Democrats back
a planned filibuster to prevent a vote on the floor of the Senate,
Obama will not even have to use his veto pen.

The nightmare of
a financially secure nuclear armed Iran, legitimized by the Obama
administration and its international partners, is about to envelop us.

Ironically, Obama warned in a speech he delivered on September 1st in
Alaska that a potentially bleak future could lie ahead, in which
"there’s not going to be a nation on this Earth that’s not impacted
negatively.”

President Obama is right to be concerned about the future, but his stated reason for his concern is entirely misplaced. Obama was talking about climate change,
which he considers to be a man-made disaster. In truth, Obama himself
has created a far more imminent disaster with his nuclear deal.

In his climate change speech, Obama spoke about our “grandkids” who
“deserve to live lives free from fear, and want, and peril.” He added
that we need to prove “we care about them and their long-term futures,
not just short-term political expediency.”

Obama, and the
partisan loyalists who support him no matter what, are the ones letting
down our grandkids. They are the ones who have sacrificed our grandkids’
long-term futures at the altar of short-term political expediency. The
only long-term future that Obama is interested in is his own legacy.

By President Obama's own admission, no later than 15 years from now –
when my granddaughter will be just 18 years old - Iran will be in a
position to develop enough enriched materials to produce nuclear bombs
with virtually no "break-out" time. The deal’s major nuclear
restrictions, such as they are, will have gone away, even assuming that
Iran had not cheated in the meantime.

The deal’s inspection
mechanism is a farce, including most notably, Iran’s self-inspection of
its military site where it is suspected that nuclear weaponization
research and development work was carried out. The military facility at
Parchin is off-limits to onsite inspection by the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA). Yet the Obama administration continues to lie to
the American people about how comprehensive the IAEA inspections will
be. Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted this falsehood on September 2nd: "With this #IranDeal, the IAEA can go wherever the evidence leads. No facility...will be off limits."

The Iranian leaders also will get their hands soon on hundreds of
billions of dollars. No doubt they will use some of their treasure trove
from sanctions relief to fund their terrorist proxies all over the
world. Obama admitted in his speech defending his deal last month at
American University that monies from sanctions relief “will flow to
activities we object to.” He acknowledged that “Iran supports terrorist
organizations like Hezbollah. It supports proxy groups that threaten our
interests and the interests of our allies – including proxy groups who
killed our troops in Iraq. They try to destabilize our Gulf partners.”

Yet Obama tells the American people not to worry about such real-life
risks. Instead, he diverts attention to his Chicken Little climate
change hype that the sky will fall if we do not take urgent action now.

Much of the rest of the Iranians’ windfall from sanctions relief will
go towards developing and acquiring, from North Korea, Russia and other
sources, advanced military technology and long-range missiles.

Iran’s leaders have made it abundantly clear that they do not consider
themselves bound by either the 5-year UN Security Council arms embargo
or the 8-year missile embargo. For example, Iran’s President Hassan
Rouhani declared: “We will buy, sell and develop any weapons we need and
we will not ask for permission or abide by any [U.N.] resolution for
that.”

Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said last
month that “We are considering the design, research, and production of
[missiles] that are highly destructive, highly accurate, radar evasive,
and tactical.”

Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, commander of the aerospace
division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said: “Some
wrongly think Iran has suspended its ballistic missile programs in the
last two years and has made a deal on its missile program.” To emphasize
his point, the commander announced that Iran “will have a new ballistic
missile test in the near future that will be a thorn in the eyes of our
enemies.”

The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, announced plans to expand the
reach of Iran’s missiles.

The Iranian thugs are not limiting
themselves to purely defensive weapons. “They (the US and the Zionists)
should know that the Islamic Revolution will continue enhancing its
preparedness until it overthrows Israel and liberates Palestine,” said Brigadier General Mohsen Kazzemeini,
the IRGC’s top commander in the Tehran Province (as quoted by Iran’s
Fars News Agency). “We will continue defending not just our own country,
but also all the oppressed people of the world, especially those
countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with the
Zionists,” he added.

The Obama administration, which conceded
as part of the nuclear deal to agree to unconditional term limits on the
arms and missile embargoes, barely raised an eyebrow at Iran’s refusal
to be bound by even these limited embargoes. In fact, Kerry went so far
as to say that “they are not in material breach of the nuclear agreement
for violating the arms piece of it.”

A sobering report was just released by the Iran Strategy Council,
led by retired generals Chuck Wald (Commandant of Marine Corps) and
James Conway (Deputy Commander of European Command). It warns of the
deal's likely dangers to America’s own national security and of the
“cascading instability” it will produce in the Middle East region and
beyond:

"The final agreement on
Iran’s nuclear program, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),
has potentially grave strategic implications that directly threaten to
undermine the national security of the United States and our closest
regional allies. By allowing Iran to become a nuclear threshold state
and enabling it to become more powerful and expand its influence and
destabilizing activities – across the Middle East and possibly directly
threatening the U.S. homeland – the JCPOA will place the United States
in far worse position to prevent a nuclear Iran."

The report's
authors predict that the "nightmare scenarios of WMD and terrorism on
the soil of the United States and its allies will become more probable."

Nevertheless, the Obama administration is spiking the ball, exulting
over its evident victory in keeping enough Democratic senators on board
to protect Obama’s deal.

The White House tweeted: “If your
house is on fire, would you refuse to put it out because there could be
another fire in 15 years?”

The question should be: “If your house is flammable, would you hand your enemy a match?”
Kerry, who turned on his own fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War,
tweeted: "I have had the privilege of serving our country in times of
peace and in times of war—and peace is better."

When Neville
Chamberlain returned from Germany with his infamous Munich Pact in hand,
he declared: “I believe it is peace for our time...Go home and get a
nice quiet sleep."

The long nightmare of World War II ensued
shortly thereafter. Thanks to Barack Obama and John Kerry, we are
entering the nightmare leading inevitably to an emboldened, well-funded
Iran equipped with nuclear arms and the missiles to deliver them.

Five
Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea off the
coast of Alaska, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, marking the first
time the U.S. military has seen them in the area.

Welcome
to the new post-Obama world power structure, in which the United States
is no longer the dominant world power. Jeremy Page and Gordon Lubold
report in the Wall Street Journal:

Five
Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea off the
coast of Alaska, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, marking the first
time the U.S. military has seen them in the area.The
officials have been tracking the movements in recent days of three
Chinese combat ships, a replenishment vessel and an amphibious landing
ship after observing them moving toward the Aleutian Islands, which are
split between U.S. and Russian control.“This
would be a first in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands,” one defense
official said of the Chinese ships, which have been operating in
international waters. “I don’t think we’d characterize anything they’re
doing as threatening,” the official said.

Right.
Nothing threatening about an amphibious landing craft and support
vessels. Nothing right now, at least. The Chinese are not going to
invade and seize land, they are just practicing for it. Off Alaska.

Weakness
is provocative, and President Obama is projecting weakness. We will
continue to own Alaska, all right. As long as we can hold onto it.

So
cut that military budget and keep the Navy at the lowest number of
ships in a century. Nothing to worry about at all. Except for China,
Russia, and everyone else who sees a weak America. But don't worry; our
news [sic] transgendered armed forces will have enemies doubled up in
laughter.

Witnesses at a cafe in Brussels say EU labor union head tried to choke
woman while asserting 'Hitler should have exterminated all Jews.'

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Flash 90

Belgian police have concluded an investigation into a vicious
anti-Semitic assault at a cafe in Brussels, in which a European Union
official physically attacked a female co-worker, while verbally abusing
her as a "dirty Jewess."

The assault, in full view of other restaurant patrons, occurred on
the patio of the "Italiano" cafe near European Union headquarters in the
city, Haaretz reports.

A 50-year old Italian woman - a department head at the European
Council - saw a man at the cafe holding a metal plaque engraved with
"Mussolini" and praising the World War II-era Italian fascist leader.

She apparently infuriated the man by informing him that "he [Mussolini] was still a dictator," to which the man replied: "Dirty Jewess … Hitler should have exterminated all Jews, just like Jews today are exterminating Palestinians."

According to the woman's complaint, the encounter
quickly turned violent with the man then hitting her on the head with
the metal plaque, slapping her and grabbing her throat in an effort to
choke her.

When other people at the cafe got up to stop him, he resisted, shouting, "All you Jews should have been killed."

Several visitors in the cafe recognized the attacker as Stefan
Gersh, a Maltese EU official and the president of the EU labor union
Generation 2004, and gave the woman his name.

Although not Jewish, she rushed to the police to lodge a
complaint and also turned to Joel Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian
League against Anti-Semitism (LBCA), who launched his own probe into the
attack.

Based on Belgian's laws against racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust
denial, LBCA also filed an official complaint against Gersh.

​“This serious incident illustrates yet again that you don’t
have to be Jewish in order to be a victim of anti-Semitism," Rubinfeld
told Haaretzon Wednesday.

"In light of the multiple witness accounts, I’m sure that the
ones responsible at the European Union will take the right steps,
including firing the assailant. In the meantime we have demanded that he
be suspended until the end of the investigation.”Cynthia BlankSource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200246#.VeiPwpdup-9 Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.

'We will continue to warn about the dangers of the Iran deal,' Dore Gold, the Director of Israel's Foreign Ministry asserts Thursday.

Although US President Barack Obama has secured the necessary number of votes in Congress to ensure the passage of the Iran nuclear deal, the Democratic Party is still concerned it may lose.

According to Israeli Foreign Ministry Director Dore Gold, there is
major fear in the Democratic Party that some senators will change their
minds at the last moment or even fail to show up for the vote scheduled next week.

Speaking to Army Radio on Thursday, Gold said that numerous
US officials had been in touch with him to downplay the reports Obama
had secured the “34th vote" - the number needed to uphold a
Presidential veto of a planned congressional resolution against the
deal.

While pundits declared the vote a “lost cause” after reports on
Wednesday that Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski would support the
nuclear deal, Gold said that the Ministry has not given up hope.

In addition he said, the Foreign Ministry did not the see the
garnering of the veto votes as proof the government had “lost' on Iran.

“In the past, and for as long as necessary, we will continue to warn
about the dangers of the Iran deal," Gold stressed. “We respect the
decision-making process in the US, but we will remain on guard on all
issues surrounding Iran.”Yaakov LeviSource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200247#.VeiNAZdup-8 Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.

U.S.-based medical device developer HeartWare
International acquires Valtech Cardio, which develops heart valve repair
and replacement technology • Deal lauded as one of the most successful
exits for an Israeli biomedical company.

Valtech Cardio develops
innovative surgical instruments

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Photo credit: Valtech

Israeli medical startup Valtech Cardio
announced Wednesday that it had been acquired by global medical device
developer HeartWare International. The deal is estimated at $920
million, making it one of the most successful exits for an Israeli
biomedical company.

Based in Or Yehuda, in central Israel, Valtech
was founded in 2006 by Amir and Yossi Gross, and has 50 employees. The
privately held company develops innovative surgical and trans-catheter
valve repair and replacement devices, used primarily for the treatment
of the most prevalent heart valve diseases, mitral valve regurgitation
and tricuspid valve regurgitation, and has over 130 patents and patent
applications to its name.

Mitral valve regurgitation, also known as
mitral insufficiency, is a disorder in which the mitral valve on the
left side of the heart does not close properly, allowing blood to flow
back from the left ventricle into the left atrium. If untreated, the
disease can lead to significant cardiac function deterioration and
eventually death. Tricuspid regurgitation is a disorder in which this
valve fails to close tightly, causing blood to leak into the right upper
heart chamber when the lower chamber contracts.

The Peregrine venture capital fund was the
initial Valtech investor, and was later joined by OXO Capital Valve
Ventures and NGN Biomed Opportunity. Valtech has raised $70 million to
date.

HeartWare, based in Framingham, Massachusetts,
develops noninvasive, miniaturized circulatory support technologies
used in the treatment of heart diseases.

"We have been actively monitoring the mitral
space for several years, given the overlap of patient population and
referral channel with our VAD business," HeartWare CEO Doug Godshall
said in a statement posted on the company's website.

"We identified Valtech as having the broadest,
most compelling portfolio several years ago, which led to an investment
in 2013. This investment gave us a unique opportunity to observe
Valtech's significant progress across their portfolio of valve repair
and replacement technologies. It is from this vantage point that we have
concluded that Valtech's platforms represent the most innovative and
comprehensive portfolio of interventional and surgical products for
mitral and tricuspid repair and replacement in development today.

"Valtech provides HeartWare with commercial-stage
products for mitral repair, as well as a robust technology pipeline, an
advanced R&D center and an impressive, experienced team with a
proven track record. This combination represents an attractive
opportunity for value creation for HeartWare shareholders, customers,
employees and patients by expanding HeartWare's footprint in the
high-growth structural heart market."

An impressive 1,800 year-old stone sarcophagus was discovered at a building site in a new neighborhood currently going up in Ashkelon, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Thursday.

It was found early Wednesday morning during a joint operation by inspectors of the IAA’s Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery, the Southern District of the IAA, and patrol officers and detectives from the Ashkelon police station.

The sarcophagi is one of the rarest ever discovered in Israel. The coffin, which is made of hard limestone, weighs 2 tons and is 2.5 meters long, is sculpted on all sides. A life-size figure of a person is carved on the sarcophagus’ lid.

The sarcophagus, however, was damaged, after being repeatedly struck by a tractor in different places, scarring the stone and damaging the decorations sculpted by an artist on its sides.

The irreparable damage was caused by contractors who encountered the impressive sarcophagus during the course of their work. They decided to hide it, pulled it out of the ground with a tractor, concealed it beneath a stack of sheet metal and boards and poured a concrete floor in the lot so as to conceal any evidence of the existence of the antiquities site.

The IAA's Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery received information about the unlawful activities at the construction site and led the nighttime search where they discovered the hidden sarcophagus and its lid.

Five Palestinian construction workers from Hevron were detained, as were two buildings contractors from Ashkelon. The contractors were questioned under caution on suspicion of not reporting an ancient discovery and on suspicion of damaging an antiquities site.

“This is an extremely serious case of damage to a rare antiquity of unprecedented artistic, historical and cultural importance," said Amir Ganor, head of the Inspection Department at the IAA.

According to Ganor, “The proper way to operate in an ancient and important historic city such as Ashkelon is with transparency, openness and close cooperation between the property owners and the IAA."

"Only in this way will the development of the city be possible while protecting public assets, for the common good,” Ganor added.

Dr. Gabi Mazor, a retired archaeologist from the IAA described the scene on the sarcophagus, which included a Roman figure in a tunic, wreaths and images of bulls' heads, naked Cupis, and the head of the monstrous female figure Medusa.

According to Mazor, “Such sarcophagi were usually placed in or next to a family mausoleum. The high level of decoration attested to the family’s affluence, which judging by the depicted motifs was probably not Jewish."

Thursday, September 3, 2015

To this day, the Obama
administration mourns the fall of Egypt's Islamist President Morsi, and
turns a cold shoulder to forward-looking President el-Sisi, who is
(sometimes) trying to take Egypt into the 21st century and extricate Egypt from its economic and societal crisis.

Muslim Brotherhood terrorism against the Egyptian regime is a
perfect example of how this "political movement" is in reality a
terrorist movement whose objective is the violent overthrow of Egypt's
government. The White House, fully aware of the facts, continues hosting
senior Muslim Brotherhood officials and shows them respect during
consultations about the American Islamic community and U.S. policy in
the Middle East.

Events in Sinai prove there is no such thing as "political
Islam." There is a radical Islamist leadership that represents itself to
the gullible West as "moderate," preaches violence from mosques, cloaks
itself in ideological-religious tradition, and employs Islamist
terrorists to attack civilians and Egyptian government targets.

It is hard not to conclude, looking at President Obama's record
(ignoring protesters of 2009 in Iran; "I've got a pen, and I've got a
phone"; the dictatorial way the Iran deal is bypassing the democratic
process) that in his heart-of-hearts, he is far more committed to
supporting extremist Islamist regimes -- whether the mullahs of Iran or
the Muslim Brotherhood -- than to supporting democracy, individual
freedoms or human rights.

The Europeans are more aware of the situation but woke up too
late. As hundreds of thousands of migrants from Muslim lands continue to
pour over Europe's open borders, there is little doubt that radical
Islam is poised to take over the West. Islamic communities and terrorist
cells continue to mushroom throughout the cities of Europe.

The world is beginning to understand that the catastrophes of the
Middle East have nothing to do with the resolution of the Palestinian
issue but are caused by the innate homicidal tendencies of the Arab
rulers and the regional Islamist terrorist organizations.

Hamas is in trouble. Its relations with Egypt are going from bad to
worse, and the influx of money, primarily from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
the mosques in the Western world -- where charity (zakat) was
collected to finance anti-Israel terrorism -- has dwindled to almost
nothing. So has the flow of arms and explosives from Iran, Libya, Sudan
and Lebanon. The resulted is the weakening of Hamas rule in the Gaza
Strip, making it ever more difficult for Hamas to continue its ongoing
subversion of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and its
non-stop attempts to overthrow President Mahmoud Abbas to take over the
West Bank and establish there the sort of Islamic emirate it established
in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas's military buildup was halted when the President Mohamed
Morsi's radical Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt was toppled and
General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was elected President. Morsi, it will be
recalled, strangely received support from President Obama until he was
ousted. The Obama administration supported him despite Morsi enabling
for the flow of money and arms to Hamas in Gaza to continue unhampered
through the tunnels in the Sinai Peninsula. The weapons were used not
only to attack Israel, but also to sabotage peace talks between Israel
and the Palestinians and, indirectly, to attack the Palestinian
Authority.

The Islamist terrorism festivities ended when President el-Sisi
clamped down on the Islamists in Egypt, destroyed the tunnels and sealed
Egypt's border with Gaza. Since el-Sisi has been president of Egypt,
Muslim Brotherhood rule has ended and the tunnels have been destroyed.
It is hard to fathom why, to this day, the Obama administration mourns
the fall of the Islamist Morsi administration and turns a cold shoulder
to forward-looking el-Sisi, who is (sometimes) trying to take Egypt into
the 21st century and extricate Egypt from its economic and societal crisis.

Since el-Sisi has been in power, money and arms no longer flow
through the tunnels into the Gaza Strip; instead they began to flow in
the opposite direction, from the Gaza Strip into Egypt's Sinai
Peninsula. Since the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliated terrorist
organizations, Hamas among them, have not accepted defeat, there has
been an increase in terrorist attacks targeting the Egyptian regime both
inside the country proper and in the Sinai Peninsula. The terrorist
campaign receives ongoing support from the Izz al-Din al-Qassam
Brigades, Hamas' military-terrorist wing, and the ISIS-affiliated Ansar
Bayt al-Maqdis. Both continuously attack the Egyptian police and army in
the Sinai Peninsula, murder Egyptian officials and target Egyptian
institutions.

The endless terrorist campaign in Egypt has proven yet again that the
claim of a political Islam, separate from the terrorist organizations,
is simply a lie. Muslim Brotherhood terrorism against the Egyptian
regime is a perfect example of how the "political movement" tries to
represent itself as dealing only with the da'wah [proselytizing],
while in reality it is a terrorist movement whose objective is the
violent overthrow of el-Sisi's administration. The White House, fully
aware of the facts, continues hosting senior Muslim Brotherhood
officials and shows them respect during consultations about the American
Islamic community and U.S. policy in the Middle East.

While
being hosted by the State Department on a visit to Washington in
January 2015, Muslim Brotherhood judge Waleed Sharaby (left) flashed the
organization's four-finger "Rabia" sign. At right, ousted Egyptian
President Mohamed Morsi (from the Muslim Brotherhood) displays the Rabia
sign.

The events in the Sinai Peninsula prove there is no such thing as
"political Islam." There is a radical Islamist leadership that
represents itself to the gullible West as "moderate," preaches violence
from the mosques, cloaks itself in ideological-religious tradition, and
employs a hard core of Islamist terrorists to carry out attacks on
civilians and Egyptian administration targets.

In the meantime, the real victims are the Egyptians. The Muslim
Brotherhood's terrorism has paralyzed Egypt's tourist industry, as
foreigners fear to visit Egypt's antiquities. And now there are
terrorist threats to the New Suez Canal, a project initiated and carried
out under the leadership of General Sisi to turn both banks of the two
canals into an international logistics, commercial and industrial area.

The Islamists' plans are clear. First, they want to leverage
violence, murder and countless Egyptian army casualties into
establishing an autonomous terrorist enclave in the Sinai Peninsula.
Then they will try to overthrow the Egyptian government and reinstate an
Islamist Muslim Brotherhood regime headed by Morsi. That is exactly
what their offshoot, Hamas, did in the Gaza Strip when it liquidated
Palestinian Authority officials and established an Islamic emirate. The
writing on the wall is still illegible as far as the U.S. government is
concerned. Or else the Obama administration is still in the thrall of
extremist Islam and its Muslim Brotherhood leaders. The two main ones
are Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has just called new elections so
that he can try again to acquire enough seats in parliament to amend
Turkey's constitution to award himself a one-man Sultanate, an absolute
dictatorship-for-life to go along with his new palace. The other is
Mohamed Morsi, whom Obama apparently is still backing.

It is hard not to conclude, looking at the U.S. president's record
(ignoring the protesters of 2009 in Iran; "I've got a pen, and I've got a
phone" and the dictatorial way the Iran deal has been short-circuited
to bypass the democratic process) that in his heart-of-hearts, he is far
more committed to supporting extremist Islamist regimes -- whether the
mullahs of Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood -- than to supporting
democracy, individual freedoms or human rights.

The Europeans are more aware of the situation but unfortunately woke
up too late. As hundreds of thousands of migrants from Muslim lands
continue to pour over Europe's open borders, there is little doubt that
radical Islam is poised to take over the West. Islamic communities and
terrorist cells continue to mushroom and gather strength throughout the
cities of Europe.

From the beginning of the wave of attacks in Egypt, senior Egyptian
security officials threatened Hamas. Egypt warned Hamas to stop
training, arming and sending its terrorists to collaborate with ISIS
operatives in attacks against the Egyptian army. Hamas steadfastly
denies any involvement, even as it continues collaborating with ISIS
against Egypt.

As far as Hamas is concerned, destroying the Egyptian army is
essential, because its continued actions along the Rafah border and in
Sheikh Zuweid in the northern Sinai Peninsula prevent Hamas from
acquiring money and stockpiling weapons to fight Israel, which weakens
its subversion against Mahmoud Abbas and its plans to take over the West
Bank.

Despite profuse denials, at the end of August 2015, four operatives
from Hamas's military-terrorist wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades,
were taken off a bus by armed Egyptians
on the way from Rafah through the Sinai Peninsula to Cairo. Hamas
immediately accused Israeli intelligence of responsibility and warned
the Egyptian authorities that "the abduction of its operatives will not
go unpunished."

In response, Dina Ramez, a co-host on Egypt's official TV station,
called Hamas out on its lies and denials of its terrorist activities in
the Sinai Peninsula against the Egyptian regime. She asked Hamas, "If
you are not involved in terrorism, what were your senior Izz al-Din
al-Qassam Brigades operatives doing in Sinai?" and called them
"cockroaches."

Sources in Hamas called her a "whore," and called Egypt a loser
country defeated by Israel, using a peace treaty to sell Palestine to
the enemy. Was that really the way to thank Egypt for everything it has
done for the Palestinians, sacrificing its army and soldiers for us? It
is a sad situation for the Palestinians and for our leadership.

What have we Palestinians gained from Hamas's military actions
against Egypt? What have we gained from our solidarity with Islamist
organizations fighting against Assad in Syria, or joining organizations
such as the "Palestinian Liberation Army" fighting for Assad? Why are we
killing each other in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp? Why do we refuse everything the Israelis offer us?

Anyone who remembers history remembers the ungrateful path trodden by
the Palestinians against the Kingdom of Jordan, when our leaders,
headed by Arafat, tried in 1970 to overthrow King Hussein, despite the
refuge Jordan offered us during the catastrophes of the Nakba in 1948 and the Naksa
in 1967. Then we did the same thing in Lebanon, to where we fled from
Jordan. The PLO relocated its headquarters to Beirut, and went on to
turn Lebanon into a terrorist country and the lives of the Lebanese into
a nightmare. If the Israelis had not invaded Lebanon in 1982, and
forced the PLO to relocate to Tunisia (where its behavior was also
criminal), the Palestinians definitely would have destroyed Lebanon.

The Middle East is in chaos, and Palestinian factionalism and
ingratitude continue to inflame the dissolution of the Arab states and
the internal Palestinian division between Hamas in Gaza and the
Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

The world is beginning to understand that the catastrophes of the
Middle East have nothing to do with the resolution of the Palestinian
issue, but are caused by the innate homicidal tendencies of the Arab
rulers and the regional Islamist terrorist organizations.

The only person left who believes the Israeli-Palestinian nonsense is
President Barack Obama, even though he is witness to the murders,
rapes, beheadings and the millions of refugees, next to which the
Palestinian issue is an old, irrelevant and very tired joke.

Central European nations Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
are preparing to reject EU immigrant quotas, and guard their borders
with barriers and military, to try to save their countries from an
apocalyptic Muslim migrant invasion

Central European nations Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
are preparing to reject EU immigrant quotas, and guard their borders
with barriers and military, to try to save their countries from an
apocalyptic Muslim migrant invasion caused by the U.S.-led
destabilization of the Middle East.

The
hindsight rearview mirror is looking clearer all the time, as the
fruits of the “Arab Spring” revolutions, which swept away stable if
autocratic governments only to allow the brutal rise of the Islamic
State Caliphate, are now ripening in the form of millions of migrants
fleeing Syria and Iraq, and entering Europe through the Balkans.

In a significant analysis piece in National Review last August, Ira Straus traced how the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Mid-East policy

"has provided the hothouse for the growth of
the extremist Islamic State. In due course, it spilled over from Syria
into Iraq, and it has issued threats against the American homeland. The
Obama-Kerry policy has also made for the more than 190,000 deaths in
Syria, 500,000 wounded, and 8 million refugees (more than 2 million abroad, 6 million inside Syria) — this, out of a population of about 22 million.

And that was in August 2014. In May of this year,
declassified Defense Intelligence documents revealed that the Obama
administration actually did create ISIS as a tool against Assad. Per a
report in the US Herald:

"Thanks in part to the declassification of
Defense Intelligence documents, connecting those missing dots seems to
have finally reveled [sic] what most Middle East observers have
suspected all along, that the rise of the terrorist group ISIS and the
likelihood of establishing a terror state (a caliphate), had been
predicated by both the CIA and DIA, as far back as 2012.

And purposely created by the Obama
Administration in part to isolate the Syrian government of President
Bashar al-Assad. The documents also predicted that the support given by
the West, Turkey and the Persian Gulf Arab states to the Takfiri
militants would eventually lead to the establishment of a Salafist
Principality in Eastern Syria.

According to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed, the “leaked
document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey,
the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize
Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of
an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria.”

That revelation was confirmed via a separate source in a report from WND on August 11, which states,

"The former director of the U.S. Defense
Intelligence Agency… Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael J. Flynn said the
assertion that the rise of ISIS caught the administration by surprise
isn’t true.

The White House made a conscious
decision, he said, when it sponsored the radical jihadists who later
became the Jabhad al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or
ISIS, to fight the Assad regime.

And now we are witnessing the fallout from the Obama
administration’s policies, as millions of Middle East migrants flood
Europe. Of course, there is no leisure time for the Pew Forum to conduct
research polls on the religious makeup of the migrants, but it’s a safe
bet that we’re looking at a demographic spread of at least 10-1, Muslim
to Christian, given the collapse of the Christian population in Iraq
and Syria already; the ratio is likely much more extreme.

Slovakia had already rejected the EU’s quotas,
denying entry to Muslim refugees and stating they “will only accept
Christians.” Now in the Reuters report (below), we see the the so-called
Visegrad 4 countries preparing to form a united front against the
Muslim migrant invasion directly caused by Obama’s policies.

The leaders of the four brave countries know who is behind this catastrophe. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico defiantly “said
Europe should focus on tackling the causes of the crisis and criticised
Western support for opposition groups in Syria and Libya, saying that
had helped fuel the civil wars there and thus the flight of so many
people.”

Slovakia and the Czech Republic hope to forge a common
position with Hungary and Poland on Europe’s migrant crisis that would
reject any EU quotas for redistributing the immigrants, the two
countries’ leaders said on Monday.

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has invited his
counterparts in the so-called Visegrad 4 group to discuss the crisis in
Prague on Friday, a spokesman said.

The outcome is likely to be a hardline stance on the issue
that the EU’s central European states will take to an extraordinary
meeting of EU interior ministers on Sept. 14.

Hungary’s status as an eastern outpost of Europe’s
passport-free Schengen area has made it a transit route for tens of
thousands of migrants from the Middle East and beyond heading for
western Europe via the Balkans. Hungary has responded by erecting a
fence along its border with Serbia.

The central Europeans have blocked proposals from Brussels
that envisage EU member states accepting binding quotas to share out
asylum-seekers crossing the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece. Since
then, voluntary offers by member states to take in immigrants have
fallen short of the needed numbers.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has called their stance “scandalous”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the future of
Schengen would be in question if Europe cannot agree on redistributing
refugees.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said binding quotas would not happen.

“We strongly reject any quotas … If a mechanism for
automatic redistribution of migrants is adopted, then we will wake up
one day and have 100,000 people from the Arab world and that is a
problem I would not like Slovakia to have,” Fico told a news conference
shown live on television.

“We are prepared to do what is needed and what is within
our possibilities, for people who really need help, separate them from
economic migrants,” he added.

Czech President Milos Zeman said the country should reject
quotas and increase its border protection, given the EU was unable to
do so.

“The Czech Republic should take care of its borders on its
own, it should expel illegal migrants … even using the army, should it
be needed,” Zeman said.

Fico said Europe should focus on tackling the causes of
the crisis and criticised Western support for opposition groups in Syria
and Libya, saying that had helped fuel the civil wars there and thus
the flight of so many people.

Most of the migrants arriving in Hungary aim to move on to
wealthier countries further west such as Germany, which is expecting an
influx of some 800,000 people this year alone.

Austria, another favourite destination, tightened border
controls on Monday, days after discovering a truck with the remains of
71 people thought to be Syrian refugees.

Slovakia, which lies north of the main ‘Balkan route’ for
migrants passing through Hungary, has seen only a fraction of the
numbers flowing through Hungary and received only 109 requests for
asylum since January.